Josh Brent sentenced to 180 days in jail, 10 years of probation

DALLAS -- Former Dallas Cowboys player Josh Brent
was sentenced Friday to 180 days in jail and 10 years of probation for a
drunken car crash that killed his friend and teammate, Jerry Brown.

Brent was convicted Wednesday of intoxication manslaughter for the
December 2012 crash on a suburban Dallas highway that killed Brown, who
was a passenger in Brent's car. Brent could have been sentenced to up to
20 years in prison.

Josh
Brent, left, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 10 years of
probation for a December 2012 wreck that killed teammate and friend
Jerry Brown.

Brent, a defensive tackle, and Brown, a linebacker on the practice
squad, also played together at Illinois. They were headed home from a
night of partying when Brent lost control of his Mercedes and crashed.
Officers who arrived on scene saw Brent trying to pull Brown's body from
the wreckage.

Blood tests pegged Brent's blood alcohol content at 0.18 percent,
which is more than twice the state's legal limit of 0.08 percent.
Prosecutors told jurors that the 320-pound Brent had as many as 17
drinks on the night of the crash.

One of Brent's attorneys, George Milner, argued that Brent wasn't
drunk and was only "guilty of being stupid behind the wheel of a car."
He contended that Brent couldn't have had nearly as much to drink as
prosecutors said and that the police blood tests were flawed.

Brent's attorneys pushed their case for probation Thursday, calling a
Dallas County official who testified that the county currently has 34
intoxication manslaughter cases that resulted in probation.

Kevin Brooks, one of Brent's attorneys, said the one-time defensive
tackle would be easy to monitor because of "who he is and who he was."
Brent retired from football last year.

Brown's mother, Stacey Jackson, also has publicly forgiven Brent.
When asked Thursday if she holds Brent responsible for her son's death,
she said: "He's still responsible, but you can't go on in life holding a
grudge. We all make mistakes."

Prosecutors pushed for prison time for Brent, who went to trial only
weeks after another Texas intoxication manslaughter case sparked
widespread public outrage. In that case, a defense expert argued that
the defendant, a 17-year-old male who caused a drunken crash that killed
four people, deserved leniency because his parents coddled him into a
sense of irresponsibility -- a condition the expert termed "affluenza."
The teen wasn't given prison time.

On Thursday, prosecutor Rebecca Dodds emphasized Brent's 2009 drunken
driving arrest in Illinois to press the state's argument that he
deserves prison time. In that case, he served 30 days in jail after
pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge.

"Probation doesn't work for Josh Brent," Dodds told the jury during closing statements in the punishment phase.

Brent played in all 12 games for the Cowboys in 2012 before the crash. Brown made the practice squad that season.

Ijs imo no shade this guy looks like he is on the low end of the IQ scale.

Anywho, multiple DUIs? 10 years probation? He'll mess up and be back in jail.

sad to say it but I think so too. May be out of guilt. I knew a teen who was involved with something like this; his best friend died in a car that he was driving (stolen car). The friend's mom was very forgiving and said she didn't blame him for her son's death. he didn't go to prison. But after that, he went into a depression or something and started doing all sorts of things to get himself in trouble. I don't think he ever got over it. Now he's in prison for something else.

Ijs imo no shade this guy looks like he is on the low end of the IQ scale.

Anywho, multiple DUIs? 10 years probation? He'll mess up and be back in jail.

ETA: Too bad he didn't have affluenza.

yeah right. I was watching something last night and a commentator said it would be hard for them to give him a long sentence after that other kid in the same area had just gotten off for killing people while driving drunk under the affluenza defense. I honestly thought they would find a way to give him the max though since he's Black and all.

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